Studies in Honor of Ross ShidelerThe contributors to this volume took their inspiration from Ross Shidelers extensive and diverse body of work, and particularly from Professor Shidelers volume, Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg and Hardy (Stanford University Press, 1999). The essays in this collection deal with father figuresbiological, literary, intellectual, and culturalas well as the gender challenges that they invoke and the gender identities that